‘World’s fattest woman’ leaves home for the first time in 25 years to have weight reduction surgery after reaching nearly 80 STONE

A woman who weighs nearly 80 stone is leaving her home for the first time in 25 years to have life-saving weight reduction surgery.

Iman Ahmad Abdulati, 36 – who tips the scales at over half a tonne (over 78.7 stone) – is to fly to India from her home in Alexandria, Egypt, after one of the world’s leading bariatric surgeons volunteered to treat her.

But her operation was almost grounded before it began after immigration officials at India’s embassy in Cairo refused to believe Iman – believed to be the fattest woman in the world – was too big to visit to make her visa application.

Indian law requires visa applicants to allow immigration police to take their fingerprints.

They only backed down when surgeon Dr Muffazzal Lakdawala used Twitter to contact India’s External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj to ask for help.